Online Christian Churches: Three Case Studies

Online churches are Internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, proselytism and other ecclesial activities through digital media. This article is based on three case studies of online churches: i-church, the Anglican Cathedral of Second Life, and LifeChurch.tv Church Online. Seven key th...

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1. VerfasserIn: Hutchings, Tim (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox Publ. 2010
In: Journal for the academic study of religion
Jahr: 2010, Band: 23, Heft: 3, Seiten: 346-369
weitere Schlagwörter:B Internet Religion
B Online Churches
B Christianity
B Internet
B Cyberethnography
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Zusammenfassung:Online churches are Internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, proselytism and other ecclesial activities through digital media. This article is based on three case studies of online churches: i-church, the Anglican Cathedral of Second Life, and LifeChurch.tv Church Online. Seven key themes emerge from these case studies and are used here as a framework for comparative analysis: mass appeal, spiritual experience, community, reliance on the familiar, local church attendance, internal control and external oversight.
ISSN:2047-7058
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the academic study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v23i3.346